TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Helaine
AU  - Tremblay,Marie-Eve
TI  - Lines, bars and circles: how William Playfair invented graphs 
SN  - 9781771385701
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Kids Can Press
KW  - Playfair, William,
KW  - Mathematical statistics
KW  - Graphic methods
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Charts, diagrams, etc
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N2  - "Born in Scotland more than 250 years ago, William Playfair was a dreamer who saw the world differently from other people. Unfortunately, this difference sometimes got in the way of his success. Early on, as he attempted to apply his unique perspective to a series of career opportunities in order to gain riches! fame! glory! he instead suffered one failure after another. Then, while writing a book about economics, Will's innovative vision inspired an idea that would set him apart: he created the first modern line graph. Next came a bar graph and later a pie chart. These infographic inventions provided a way for numbers to be seen as pictures, which made them easier to understand and to remember --- and thus changed the way the world would interact with data forever"--
ER  -